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Butcher, Kristin

The Runaways

168 pp. | Kids Can | January, 1998 | Trade ISBN 1-55074-413-5
(3) 4-6 Twelve-year-old Nick, struggling to accept a new stepfather and his mom's news that she's pregnant, runs away and literally runs smack into Luther, a homeless man. Nick returns home but as he pursues an unlikely friendship with Luther, he finds his assumptions about homelessness challenged and discovers that Luther, too, has run away from his problems. The ending is almost too neat, but this is a realistic and sensitive story.
Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.

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